As you may well know, last November I saw an extraordinarily rare book that had been hidden away for over 100 years being auctioned off at Christie’s and decided I needed to try and buy it. So, I began a Kickstarter to help that effort and, long story short, that book and its companion now have a new home at UBC Rare Books & Special Collections. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here are some things to bring you up to speed.

Now, if you’ve read this far, chances are you are up to speed on this story. This is the place I’ve decided to round up all the media attention this acquisition garnered. I’ll be penning a much longer blog post very soon about the whole process, but this will serve as a placeholder until that happens. Oh, I also made a Storify story. I like to think of Storifies as a quilt made from a bunch of tweets. You probably didn’t need to know that.

Also, if you’re in the Vancouver area you can actually see these books and many other stupendous examples of decadent publishing at UBC Rare Books & Special Collections. Until January 31.

Another banner day for this project, you guys. Not only did you help raise the total to $1600 (that’s over half way to the goal!), you shared it widely helping it get some media attention and even a very supportive blog post from Eros Blog. It’s a worthwhile read, not just because it supports my project, but because it also addresses state of knee-jerk moral reactions by companies. I also did an interview with a national journalist who’s hoping to publish an article about the project this week (or at least before the auction starts). I cannot wait to see what happens next! Thanks everyone for everything you’ve done thus far.

Please see more details here and below, under the Peter Dinklage gif that most accurately represents my feelings at the moment.

And, remember, you’re allowed to share this project as many times as you can click your mouse. If you don’t have a newer computer, please write to me and I will send you the DOS startup floppy disk so that you can share it round.

Click here if you’d like more info on the project.This is the auction site for Des Grieux: Christie’s London Here is the entry from Peter Mendes containing most of the available info on Des Grieux. Mendes is one of the few people who have actually examined the text in question: Des GrieuxIf you’d like to find out more about Teleny, you can look at the OScholars special Teleny edition here.Previous Kickstarter Updates: Launch, Day1, Day 2

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